Wednesday's pace, while busier than Monday, still has nothing on Tuesday in terms of noteworthy developments. more ›

While Christmas in Seattle was pretty much defined by Sunday's arrival of Windmageddon 2011, it was still a generally peaceful weekend, with some notable exceptions, naturally. more ›

From the ongoing manhunt taking place in Capitol Hill to the Methodist minister who accuses the SPD of using excessive force, it's been something of an unexpected day in Seattle. more ›

Everyone, it seems, has been affected by what has felt like a long week. Even the newsmakers couldn't see fit to give us an exciting day to head into the weekend. Ah, well, we all need breaks. more ›

Cop layoffs, professorial blast backs, child custody settlements and elusive protesters; these are the encapsulated details from an otherwise lackluster Monday. more ›

It's been a mixed day for protesters and well intentioned self-styled superheroes, although the Seattle Police Department gets the better end of the stick once again. more ›

A look at what else happened today beyond Occupy Seattle's eviction: bigotry goes on the public record, an SPD cop commits the crime he's supposed to prevent, the worst lie ever told to cover up an assault and more! more ›

Metro's woes put into context, a rather regrettable lapse in political wisdom, and a macabre end to a very slow news week. more ›

Stranger writer Dominic Holden does not suggest, but demands today that the local media do their jobs--you know, like, actual journalism--by reporting not only on Referendum 71 by way of deconstructing its meaning, but also by reporting on its creators, pushers, and the true interests behind its hateful and hypocritical beginnings. It's a fascinating and cringe-inducing reminder of how this all got started and we agree completely with Holden that it is an important and relevant part of the story. more ›

• A neighborhood-based local business discount card for Capitol Hill? Um, yes please! CHS tells us the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce is exploring the idea (take a survey about it here), and JSeattle leaks via Twitter, "Think it's definitely happening. Question is how it works." Rad.
• West Seattle Blog posted a surprisingly brief blurb on Mac Clay's $15 million settlement from a lawsuit over his paralyzing injury two years ago at West Seattle High School.
• Have you taken your walking tour of the viaduct yet? Queen Anne View reminds us that we have another chance on March 21. It's free, and only 45 minutes. Do it.

We've been following the news releases--cleverly disguised as Slog posts--issued by Peter Steinbrueck's stealth campaign manager, ECB, and she's gotten us fired up. Now if they just work on Steinbrueck himself, we'll be all set. Yesterday ECB was publicizing green golden boy Steinbrueck via a "RUN FOR MAYOR" Facebook group that has sprung up--it had 41 members then and this morning we became 99, just like in Get Smart. Today ECB has hit the e-bricks early, quoting an unnamed "recent poll" in which "Steinbrueck wallops Nickels 46.6 percent to 24.1 percent, with 29.4 percent undecided" in a head-to-head match-up. (ECB doesn't mention our equally scientific 5-way poll in which Nickels just edged out Steinbrueck 38 percent to 36.) So all we've really learned so far is that ECB would vote for Peter in a heartbeat--but maybe...just maybe...that's enough? more ›

Look, we've been through this before, though not on Capitol Hill. If we hadn't just posted our ode to organ meats, a sonnet to spleen, we probably wouldn't care. But over at Slog, Stranger managing editor (and foodie) Bethany Jean Clement has written a couple of posts about the furor surrounding foie gras. Specifically that John Sundstrom at Lark refuses to cave in to a nutball lunatic fringe called the Northwest Animal Rights Network, NARN for short, unhappy about his menu to the point of picketing the restaurant once a week. The subject of the outrage: Lark serves foie gras. No different than thousands of restaurants around the country, and in the mainstream of European culinary tradition that recognizes foie gras as a delicacy. more ›

Jason over at Eat Sleep Publish has a beautiful post on net neutrality and the old vs. new economy. In Greenwood, the Food Network stopped by with cameras and Guy Fieri to film at Georgia's Greek Deli; PhinneyWood has photos. Don't try to pawn off your foreign currency on Washington state ferries, because they're not having it, reports Seattle Metblogs. Even if it is Canadian. Even Canadian quarters. Not allowed. And Slog is thinking about shoplifting, Whole Foods, and sausages in pants. (As are we all.) more ›

Perhaps it's a resurgence of energy after the post-holiday blues that galvanized city activists to gather in solidarity against world problems this weekend. There were two rallies we know of: yesterday's 1,500-strong pro-Israel rally at Temple De Hirsch Sinai on Capitol Hill, and a gay rights protest march from Capitol Hill to Westlake Center on Saturday. The pro-Israel rally was the larger and better-organized of the two; as Dominic Holden over at Slog notes, the anti-DOMA march was poorly attended and organized by a small, inexperienced group without the help of Equal Rights Washington. (Our apologies if the headline makes it seem like the anti-DOMA and pro-Israel camps had anything to do with each other, because they sure didn't.) more ›

There's a noisy debate going on in the comments on both Slog and KOMO regarding the cops and lethal versus non-lethal actions. more ›

As a follow-up to yesterday's post about Metro bus service ("Report Says Metro Runs on People"), we've tracked down two other commentaries. ECB over at the Slog has some illuminating boarding cost numbers to share: "Because so many suburban buses still run virtually empty (while urban buses are crammed past capacity), the cost per boarding in outlying areas is significantly higher—$7.27 in the East subarea, and $4.79 in the South, compared to $3.64 in the West." The Seattle Transit Blog mentions Metro's defense, that the "cost-per-passenger-mile is relatively low." more ›

Over at the Slog, the ECB has interrupted the usual stream-of-pop-cultural-consciousness with some actual health news: "According to a new analysis, plastic products marketed for infants or labeled "microwave safe" (including those stamped with "safe" plastic numbers 1, 2, and 5) leached out potentially toxic levels of a chemical called bisphenol-A (BPA) when heated in a microwave." The worst offender was Enfamil baby formula, which is like a kick in the gut, as BPA is an endocrine disruptor and especially unsafe for kids. So you can go ahead and throw that shit out. And by "that shit," we mean of course the FDA. more ›

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Alexa, the internetz rating service, is out with a ranking of Seattle's top 50 media websites. Not surprisingly, da Timez-&-Pee-Eye combo site, nwsource.com, is numero uno. Our good friends at Slog are in fourth place. Seattlest.com is a more-than-respectable tenth. WestSeattleBlog is 15th. Says Alex Mayer, publisher of dead-tree Belltown Messenger (#42) and live-electron Downtown Dispatch (#36), "The future of media is on the web." more ›

As the Slog pointed out yesterday, giant baseball nerd (God bless those of us that are left) Nate Silver uses some sort of math (snore) to project what he claims is non-biased polling data. more ›

Seattlest Abbey is still recovering from a waterlogged Radiohead show, so we apologize for your morning news delay. We're going to let her sleep in, even if we're still jealous we didn't get to go. Happy morning news! ~Your Editor more ›

As mentioned on Slog yesterday, Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) has recommended that the City of Seattle remove the self-cleaning public toilets located in and around downtown Seattle. more ›

Over at the Slog, they've tossed some fresh meat to the slavering Obama and Clinton hounds: video of Clinton repeating three or four times that she and McCain have a lifetime of experience to draw upon, while Obama has "a speech he made in 2002." more ›